1. Discuss how questioned document examiners can provide information useful to many types of investigations.
2. What are the major factors in the development of an individual's handwriting?
3. List the two major types of handwriting control samples and their particular advantages and disadvantages.
4. List several important types of examinations that questioned document examiners provide other than handwriting comparison.
5. What are the main approaches for estimation of when a document may actually have been written?
6. What are the major methods used to decipher indented writing?
7. What are the major methods used to look for erasures on documents?
8. Discuss the health issues that can affect the appearance of an individual's handwriting.
9. What types of examinations do document examiners perform on typewritten, computer printed, and copied documents?
10. Discuss differences between handwriting and hand printing and how they can affect the examination of such documents.
11. What role does trace evidence play in the examination of tools and toolmarks?
12. How are toolmarks properly documented, protected, and collected?
13. What is the function and importance of the cartridge in the operation of a firearm?
14. List the three types of handguns and how they differ.
15. What is the process for comparing bullets and firearms evidence to a suspected weapon?
16. What is the role of the General Rifling Characteristics database in the investigation and prosecution of firearms cases?
17. List some of the many ways that firearms evidence may be used in the reconstruction of firearms-related incidents.
18. Discuss the importance of and methods for restoration of defaced serial numbers.
19. Discuss the role of NIBIN in the investigation of cases involving firearms.
20. Why have cartridge cases become such an important type of firearm evidence in recent years?
21. Discuss the importance of pyrolysis in the combustion of solid fuels.
22. What role can the careful processing of a fire scene play in the investigation of the incident?
23. What aids are available to the fire investigator for selecting evidence to be sent to the laboratory?
24. How is evidence collected from a fire scene processed in a forensic laboratory?
25. What are the major objectives of a fire scene investigation?
26. Discuss what is happening when an explosive device detonates and why it can cause so much damage.
27. What are the similarities and differences in the processing of a fire scene and an explosive incident scene?
28. What are the differences in the laboratory's approach to examining materials from an incident where the device failed to explode and one where the device exploded?
29. Briefly describe how a pistol or rifle cartridge can be looked at as a simple explosive device.
30. Give some examples of low explosives and some examples of high explosives.